Can food be causing your rash? Lemons and Mushrooms
- Posted on: Apr 18 2024
Lemons
Applying lemons directly to your skin is not recommended. Lemon juice has a high anount of vitamin C. so far so good. so this is wrong for so many reasons Lets start with the diagnosis of presumed seborrheic dermatitis or dandruff which manifests by a buildup of thick chunky white flakes and is associated with a yeast called malessia furfur which causes inflammation.
This bizarre itchy streaky rash occurred 2 days after eating undercooked mushrooms. It turns out that raw Shiitake mushroom contain a toxin called Lentinan that causes fluids and inflammatory chemicals to leak into the skin. The rash will eventually clear but goes away much quicker with topical steroids. It is also known as flagellate dermatitis since its looks like person has been whipped. This patient opted for treatment. Moral of the story, cook your mushrooms
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